{"id":572,"date":"2021-09-24T09:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cymbeline.ch\/?p=572"},"modified":"2021-09-24T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:57:46","slug":"copy-files-with-powershell-remoting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cymbeline.ch\/2021\/09\/24\/copy-files-with-powershell-remoting\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy files with PowerShell Remoting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, at work, I found myself in the situation where I needed to copy some file from my workstation to a jump box. Now of course, on Linux I&#8217;d just use <code>rsync<\/code> or <code>scp<\/code>. But our IT doesn&#8217;t like provisioning Linux boxes and therefore uses Windows for jump servers too, so no luck here. Luckily, I could convince them to turn on and allow PowerShell Remoting, so with some simple scripts I can still easily copy files over without using SMB and looking at more hassle with IT.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: powershell; auto-links: false; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nfunction Copy-LocalToRemote(\n    &#91;Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] $LocalPath,\n    &#91;Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] $RemotePath,\n    $ComputerName = 'my.default.target.host'\n) {\n    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ComputerName `\n        {\n            param($path, $content)\n            Set-Content -Path $path -Value $content `\n                -AsByteStream\n        } `\n        -ArgumentList $RemotePath,(\n            Get-Content $LocalPath Raw -AsByteStream)\n}\n\nfunction Copy-RemoteToLocal(\n    &#91;Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] $RemotePath,\n    &#91;Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] $LocalPath,\n    $ComputerName = 'my.default.source.host'\n) {\n    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ComputerName `\n        {\n            param($path)\n            Get-Content -Path $path -Raw -AsByteStream\n        } `\n        -ArgumentList $RemotePath |\n    Set-Content -Path $LocalPath -AsByteStream\n}\n\nNew-Alias -Name 'ltr' -Value 'Copy-LocalToRemote'\nNew-Alias -Name 'rtl' -Value 'Copy-RemoteToLocal'\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p>As you can see, this is quite simple. Obviously, functions above can only copy one file at a time though. Maybe in the future I&#8217;ll build something that can copy entire file structures recursively. I also haven&#8217;t spent any time looking at how efficient it is to pass streams this way. In fact, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised at all if this would perform poorly for large files. But then again, I&#8217;m mostly pushing around scripts and config files, so this works just fine.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, at work, I found myself in the situation where I needed to copy some file from my workstation to a jump box. Now of course, on Linux I&#8217;d just use rsync or scp. But our IT doesn&#8217;t like provisioning Linux boxes and therefore uses Windows for jump servers too, so no luck here. 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